[OSM-Devserver] proposal for a poor?mans?batch?processing?system ?:)

[Sven Geggus]

Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:

> Furthermore I would like see fixed times and days of a week* reserved
> for the batch projects. During those times those projects should have
> priority over other batch projects.

Hm, as I do not really want to dive deeply into gridengine or simular,
myself, just let me suggest the following:

Our most popular batch-job dependent project as far as downloads are concerned seems
to be the "All in One Garmin Map"!

Its process needs roughly 8 hours. Starting about 7:30AM till about 4PM
which is quite long :(

So let me suggest the following:

In Future the AIO Map should be produced on Monday, Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday only.  This way all Garmin dependent weekend mappers can
work with a current Map but have to wait for their Weekend mappign
results until Monday evening. I think this way Gaarmin Maps are still
updated often enough.

Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday are then available for other processes
(8AM-8PM)

Currently you should share these days with StefanD. Just check with
him how to share these timeslots.

This way Nighttime (12PM-8AM) can be used by Dirk who has to make shure, that
no Tagwatch process is running at daytime anymore.

Tobias should go for early evening hours with dortmund_extract.sh

Anybody else who needs a timeslice?

Objections?

Sven

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